Journal of Development Economics

1974 - 2025

Current editor(s): M. R. Rosenzweig

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Volume 159, issue C, 2022

Community origins of industrial entrepreneurship in colonial India

Bishnupriya Gupta, Dilip Mookherjee, Kaivan Munshi and Mario Sanclemente

Multiple price lists for willingness to pay elicitation

B. Kelsey Jack, Kathryn McDermott and Anja Sautmann

What do jobseekers want? Comparing methods to estimate reservation wages and the value of job attributes

Brian Feld, AbdelRahman Nagy and Adam Osman

Trust and saving in financial institutions by the poor

Sebastian Galiani, Paul Gertler and Camila Navajas-Ahumada

“Storm autocracies”: Islands as natural experiments

Muhammad Habibur Rahman, Nejat Anbarci and Mehmet Ulubasoglu

A behavioral intervention to increase preschool attendance in Uruguay

Nicolas Ajzenman, Laura Becerra Luna, Juan Manuel Hernández-Agramonte, Florencia Lopez Boo, Marcelo Perez Alfaro, Alejandro Vásquez-Echeverría and Mercedes Mateo Diaz

Can information correct optimistic wage expectations? Evidence from Mozambican job-seekers

Sam Jones and Ricardo Santos

Using household rosters from survey data to estimate all-cause excess death rates during the COVID pandemic in India

Anup Malani and Sabareesh Ramachandran

The dirty business of eliminating open defecation: The effect of village sanitation on child height from field experiments in four countries

Lisa Cameron, Paul Gertler, Manisha Shah, Maria Laura Alzua, Sebastian Martinez and Sumeet Patil

Love in the time of HIV: How beliefs about externalities impact health behavior

Laura Derksen, Adamson Muula and Joep van Oosterhout

Volume 158, issue C, 2022

Index insurance and basis risk: A reconsideration

Erik Lichtenberg and Eva Iglesias

Agricultural revolution and industrialization

Angus Chu, Pietro Peretto and Xilin Wang

Social barriers to female migration: Theory and evidence from Bangladesh

Amrit Amirapu, M Asadullah and Zaki Wahhaj

When student incentives do not work: Evidence from a field experiment in Malawi

James Berry, Hyuncheol Bryant Kim and Hyuk Harry Son

International risk sharing for food staples

Scott Bradford, Digvijay Negi and Bharat Ramaswami

Evaluating the distributive effects of a micro-credit intervention

Pushkar Maitra, Sandip Mitra, Dilip Mookherjee and Sujata Visaria

What is the optimal locus of control for social assistance programs? Evidence from the Productive Safety Net Program in Ethiopia

Andrew Simons

Exposure to transit migration: Public attitudes and entrepreneurship

Nicolás Ajzenman, Cevat Giray Aksoy and Sergei Guriev

Wider economic benefits of transport corridors: Evidence from international development organizations

Muneeza Alam, Matias Herrera Dappe, Martin Melecký and Ran Goldblatt

China and the World Bank—How contrasting development approaches affect the stability of African states

Kai Gehring, Lennart Kaplan and Melvin H.L. Wong

Targeting in tax behavior: Evidence from Rwandan firms

Gabriel Tourek

Psychological and social motivations in microfinance contracts: Theory and evidence

Sanjit Dhami, Junaid Arshad and Ali al-Nowaihi

Protecting infants from natural disasters: The case of vitamin A supplementation and a tornado in Bangladesh

Snaebjorn Gunnsteinsson, Teresa Molina, Achyuta Adhvaryu, Parul Christian, Alain Labrique, Jonathan Sugimoto, Abu Ahmed Shamim and Keith P. West

Women’s use of family planning services: An experiment on the husband’s involvement

D’Exelle, Ben and Charlotte Ringdal

Infrastructure investment and growth in China: A quantitative assessment

Emin Dinlersoz and Zhe Fu

Overtreatment and benevolent provider moral hazard: Evidence from South African doctors

Mylène Lagarde and Duane Blaauw

The effect of computer-assisted learning on students’ long-term development

Nicola Bianchi, Yi Lu and Hong Song

Trouble with zero: The limits of subsidizing technology adoption

Pallavi Shukla, Hemant Pullabhotla and Kathy Baylis

Behavioral change promotion, cash transfers and early childhood development: Experimental evidence from a government program in a low-income setting

Patrick Premand and Oumar Barry

Population displacement and urban conflict: Global evidence from more than 3300 flood events

David Castells-Quintana, Maria del Pilar Lopez-Uribe and Thomas K.J. McDermott

Measuring social unrest using media reports

Philip Barrett, Maximiliano Appendino, Kate Nguyen and Jorge de Leon Miranda

Foreign direct investment and knowledge diffusion in poor locations

Girum Abebe, Margaret McMillan and Michel Serafinelli

Privacy protection, measurement error, and the integration of remote sensing and socioeconomic survey data

Jeffrey Michler, Anna Josephson, Talip Kilic and Siobhan Murray

Cash transfers as a response to COVID-19: Experimental evidence from Kenya

Wyatt Brooks, Kevin Donovan, Terence R. Johnson and Jackline Oluoch-Aridi

Can political parties improve minority wellbeing? Evidence from India’s “Silent Revolution”

Abhay Aneja and S.K. Ritadhi

When nature calls back: Sustaining behavioral change in rural Pakistan

Britta Augsburg, Antonella Bancalari, Zara Durrani, Madhav Vaidyanathan and Zach White

Agricultural composition and labor productivity

Cesar Blanco and Xavier Raurich

Trading textiles along the new silk route: The impact on Pakistani firms of gaining market access to China

Nida Jamil, Theresa Chaudhry and Azam Chaudhry

Competition in household human capital investments: Strength, motivations and consequences

Juncong Guo and Xi Qu

Market integration and separability of production and consumption decisions in farm households

Hundanol Kebede

Mistaking noise for bias

Arthur Blouin and Sharun W. Mukand

Volume 157, issue C, 2022

Identifying communication spillovers in lab-in-the-field experiments

Alexander Coutts

The welfare effects of India’s rural employment guarantee

Stefan Klonner and Christian Oldiges

Overcoming smallholder farmers’ post-harvest constraints through harvest loans and storage technology: Insights from a randomized controlled trial in Tanzania

Hira Channa, Jacob Ricker-Gilbert, Shiferaw Feleke and Tahirou Abdoulaye

Land property rights and rural enterprise growth: Evidence from land titling reform in China

Di Bu and Yin Liao

Group lending with covariate risk

Christian Ahlin and Godwin Debrah

Clans and calamity: How social capital saved lives during China's Great Famine

Jiarui Cao, Yiqing Xu and Chuanchuan Zhang

From bilateral trade to centralized markets: A search model for commodity exchanges in Africa

Yaw Nyarko and Heitor Pellegrina

Misperceiving and misreporting input quality: Implications for input use and productivity

Tesfamicheal Wossen, Kibrom A. Abay and Tahirou Abdoulaye

Active learning improves financial education: Experimental evidence from Uganda

Tim Kaiser and Lukas Menkhoff

Natural disasters, intra-national FDI spillovers, and economic divergence: Evidence from India

Felix Friedt and Aidan Toner-Rodgers

Caveat utilitor: A comparative assessment of resilience measurement approaches

Joanna Upton, Susana Constenla-Villoslada and Christopher Barrett

Using household grants to benchmark the cost effectiveness of a USAID workforce readiness program

Craig McIntosh and Andrew Zeitlin

Sweet unbinding: Sugarcane cultivation and the demise of foot-binding

Nora Cheng, Elliott Fan and Tsong-Min Wu

Farming output, concentration, and market access: Evidence from the 19th-century American railroad expansion

Jeff Chan

Top lights: Bright cities and their contribution to economic development

Richard Bluhm and Melanie Krause

Slums and pandemics

Luiz Brotherhood, Tiago Cavalcanti, Daniel Da Mata and Cezar Santos

Filling a niche? The maize productivity impacts of adaptive breeding by a local seed company in Kenya

Samuel Bird, Michael R. Carter, Travis Lybbert, Mary Mathenge, Timothy Njagi and Emilia Tjernström

From past lies to current misconduct: The long shadow of China's Great Leap Forward

Shuo Chen, Haoyuan Ding, Shu Lin and Haichun Ye

Export capacity constraints and distortions

Xiao Feng, Yongjin Wang and Laixun Zhao